A restoration in hotel loyalty

Blueprint for reinventing loyalty

When hotel loyalty is viewed from a full-circle standpoint, companies can think about building it in the same way that construction workers build a home. Just as a blueprint defines the type of home to be built, hotel executives can create a blueprint for the kind of loyalty they want to create.

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Reinventing hotel loyalty

​In this report, we explore how to increase the effectiveness of loyalty programs. Our research points to two over-arching and compelling conclusions:

The best-case scenario is that hotel loyalty programs as they are constituted today have either little or no impact on travelers’ purchase decisions, and, worst case, these programs drive undesirable brand-switching behavior.

Hotel brands and owners that choose to instead build differentiated loyalty programs and a customer experience that anticipates and integrates priority customers’ personalized needs have the potential to capture incremental market share, as indicated by these facts.

The Deloitte Hotel and Airline Traveler survey was conducted in October 2012 among 4,000 travelers in the United States who either stayed at a hotel or took a flight in the past 12 months. The survey focused on traveler behavior and attitudes, including customer engagement preferences, travel-booking behavior, and the effectiveness of loyalty programs in the hotel and airline industries.

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